Business Rules CmdLnLauncher.exe

Question

I am working on an Essbase application and I want to launch a business rule through a command line as shown in the example below. (taken from the HBR admin guide).
Here is how to launch a business rule called Budget with the run-time prompt information for the month of the year stored in a file called MONTH.
Target:
"C:\Hyperion\eas\console\bin\CmdLnLauncher.exe" -Sserver1 -Uadmin -Ppassword -rBudget
-fmonth.rtp
Start in:
"C:\Hyperion\eas\console\bin"
Looking through all the directories, though, I cannot see the CmdLnLauncher.exe. I think the documentation may be out of date as it refers to EAS rather than AAS. I am using Essbase 9.3.1 and the only similar thing I have seen is a HYSL\AAS\consol\bin folder that has a CmdLnLauncher.bat file in it. Does the exe file still exist and if so where should it be located?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

JohnGoodwin wrote:
Hi,
It is the bat file you can use, One way of using CmdlnLauncher is :-
Create a file and put the following information into it filling in the servername,app name and db name
ExecDB::"Essbase/servername/appname/dbname"
Save it as .xml file, so something like connect.xml
Then when you run your command line do exactly like before Cmdlnlauncher.bat -Sservername -Uusername -Ppassword -rrule -fconnect.xml
If you have variables in your rule you can
In EAS right click over the rule and select "Automate Launch Variables", fill in the details and then save it is as an xml.
You just need to reference the xml in the batch script as described above using the -f parameter.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/
Hi John, just want to check whether there is error handling of using the batch file CmdLnLauncher.bat?
Any error code returned if the HBR was not launched successfully?
Thanks!